Publications

Dhillon-Richardson, RM*, Haugan AK*, Lyons LW, McKenna JK, Bronner ME, Martik ML. Reactivation of an Embryonic Cardiac Neural Crest Transcriptional Subcircuit During Zebrafish Heart Regeneration. bioRxiv 2025.01.16.633462 (2025) doi:10.1101/2025.01.16.633462.

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Lamanna F, Hervas-Sotomayor F, Oel AP, Jandzik D, Sobrido-Camean D, Martik ML, Green SA, Bruning T, Mobinger K, Schmidt J, Schneider C, Sepp M, Murat F, Smith JJ, Bronner ME, Rodicio MC, Barreiro-Iglesias A, Medeiros DM, Arendt D, Kaessmann H. (2023) Reconstructing the ancestral vertebrate brain using a lamprey neural cell type atlas. Nat Ecol Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02170-1
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Stundl J, Martik ML, Chen D, Raja DA, Franěk R, Pospisilova A, Pšenička M, Metscher BD, Braasch I, Haitina T, Cerny R, Ahlberg PE, Bronner ME. (2023) Ancient vertebrate dermal armor evolved from trunk neural crest. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2023 Jul 25;120(30):e2221120120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2221120120.
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Dhillon-Richardson RM*, Haugan AK*, Martik ML. (2022) Fishing for developmental regulatory regions: Zebrafish tissue-specific ATAC-seq. Methods Mol Biol. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2847-8_19.
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Martik ML and Bronner ME. (2021) Riding the crest to get a head: neural crest evolution in vertebrates. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00503-2)
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Martik ML. (2020) Metabolism makes and mends the heart. eLife. 2020;9:e54665 (doi:10.7554/eLife.54665)
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McClay DR, Warner JF, Martik ML, Miranda E, Slota L. (2020) Gastrulation in the sea urchin. Current Topics in Developmental Biology. 2020;136:195-218. (https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2019.08.004)
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Martik ML, Gandhi S, Uy BR, Green SA, Gillis JA, Simoes-Costa M, and Bronner ME. (2019) Evolution of the New Head by gradual acquisition of neural crest regulatory circuits. Nature. 220, 268-4. 
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Tang W*, Martik ML*, Li Y, and Bronner ME. (2019) Cardiac neural crest contributes to cardiomyocytes in amniotes and heart regeneration in zebrafish. eLife. 2019;8:e47929 (doi:10.7554/eLife.47929)
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Martik ML and Bronner ME. (2017) Regulatory logic underlying diversification of the neural crest. Trends in Genetics. 33(10):715-727. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2017.07.015)
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Martik ML and McClay DR. (2017) New insights from a high-resolution look at gastrulation in the sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus. Mechanisms of Development.  pii: S0925-4773(17)30002-3. (doi:10.1016/j.mod.2017.06.005)
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Martik ML, Lyons DC, McClay DR. (2016) Developmental gene regulatory networks and what we can learn from them. F1000Research, 5(F1000 Faculty Rev):203 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.7381.1).
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Israel JW, Martik ML, Byrne M, Raff EC, Raff RA, McClay DR, Wray GA. (2016) Comparative Developmental Transcriptomics Reveals Rewiring of a Highly Conserved Gene Regulatory Network during a Major Life History Switch in the Sea Urchin Genus Heliocidaris. PLoSBiology. 14(3): e1002391. (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002391.)
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Martik ML and McClay DR. (2015). Deployment of a retinal determination gene network drives directed cell migration. eLife. 2015;10.7554/eLife.08827. 
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Lyons DC, Martik ML, Saunders LR, McClay DR. (2014). Specification to biomineralization: following a single cell type as it constructs a skeleton. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 54(4):723-733.
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McIntyre DC, Lyons DC, Martik ML, McClay DR. (2014.) Branching out: origins of the sea urchin larval skeleton in development and evolution. Genesis. 52(3):173-185.
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Martik ML and McClay DR. (2013). Gut development in the sea urchin.Translational Gastroenterology, from Development to Disease. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, New Jersey
 
 
Yankura KA, Martik ML, Jennings CK, Hinman VF. (2010). Uncoupling of complex regulatory patterning during evolution of larval development in echinoderms.  BMC Biology. Nov 30;8:143.
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